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Social Determinants of Health

Letters

The changing profile of mental disorders among Disability Support Pension recipients

Peter Butterworth, Philip M Burgess and Harvey Whiteford

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (1): 53-54

Letters

Alerting genetic relatives to a risk of serious inherited disease without a patient’s consent

Roger W Byard and Stephen M Cordner

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (12): 671

Body mind matters

Racism as a determinant of social and emotional wellbeing for Aboriginal Australian youth

Naomi C Priest, Yin C Paradies, Wendy Gunthorpe, Sheree J Cairney and Sue M Sayers

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (10): 546-550 Free

Notable cases

A synthetic haemoglobin-based oxygen carrier and the reversal of cardiac hypoxia secondary to severe anaemia following trauma

Mark C Fitzgerald, Julie Y Chan, Andrew W Ross, Susan M Liew, Warwick W Butt, David Baguley, Hatem H Salem, Matthias K Russ, Conor Deasy, Katherine E Martin, Joseph K Mathew and Jeffrey V Rosenfeld

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (9): 471-473 Free

From the editor’s desk

Politically correct medicine

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2011; 194 (1): 9 Free

Book reviews

Creating and marketing illness

Greg Kyle

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 708

Medicine and the media

Deconstructing cancer: what makes a good-quality news story?

Amanda J Wilson, Billie Bonevski, Alison L Jones and David A Henry

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 702-706 Free

Research

The burden of alcohol drinking on co-workers in the Australian workplace

Caroline E Dale and Michael J Livingston

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 138-140 Free

Letters

Urban–rural comparison of weight status among women and children living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods

Sharon L Brennan, Margaret J Henry, Geoffrey C Nicholson and Julie A Pasco

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (3): 187-188

Workforce and Education

General practice as a career: insights for workforce policy

Lesley M Piko and Christine B Phillips

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (2): 99-100 Free

Research

Australian attitudes to early and late abortion

Lachlan J de Crespigny, Dominic J Wilkinson, Thomas Douglas, Mark Textor and Julian Savulescu

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 9-12 Free

Film review

A cruel custom

Caroline M De Costa

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (1): 56

Book review

Cross-cultural mental health guide

Perminder S Sachdev

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (12): 718

Book review

Being “a little bit pregnant”

Lisa H Amir

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (12): 718

Corrections

Cost-effectiveness of volumetric alcohol taxation in Australia

Joshua M Byrnes, Linda J Cobiac, Christopher M Doran and Theo Vos

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (11): 655

Society, Culture and Health

Early impressions of paediatric health in Alice Springs: trying to see beyond the gaps

Marcel D Zimmet

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 606-607 Free

Book review

“Closing the gap” by opening hearts

John Boulton

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (10): 584 Free

Research

Cost-effectiveness of volumetric alcohol taxation in Australia

Joshua M Byrnes, Linda J Cobiac, Christopher M Doran, Theo Vos and Anthony P Shakeshaft

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (8): 439-443 Free

Public health

Achieving standardised reporting of suicide in Australia: rationale and program for change

Diego De Leo, Michael J Dudley, Caroline J Aebersold, John A Mendoza, Michael A Barnes, James E Harrison and David L Ranson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (8): 452-456 Free

The profession

Motives for migration of South African doctors to Australia since 1948

Peter C Arnold and David E Lewinsohn

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (5): 288-290 Free

Research

Urban–rural comparison of weight status among women and children living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods

Verity Cleland, Clare Hume, David Crawford, Anna Timperio, Kylie Hesketh, Louise Baur, Nicky Welch, Jo Salmon and Kylie Ball

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (3): 137-140 Free

Clinical update

How do we manage patients who become unemployed?

Mark F Harris, Elizabeth Harris and Timothy D Shortus

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 98-101 Free

Editorials

Planned home birth in Australia: politics or science?

Andrew F Pesce

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 60-61

Editorials

Immigration detention and health

Christine B Phillips

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 61-62

Research

The health of people in Australian immigration detention centres

Janette P Green and Kathy Eagar

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 65-70 Free